The Secret Service is seeking to discover out who introduced a baggie of cocaine that was found on Sunday night right into a visitor foyer of the West Wing of the White Home, an company spokesman stated on Wednesday.
The spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, additionally stated that the company had confirmed that the white, powdery substance discovered by an officer was cocaine, backing up the outcomes of an early check by the Washington hearth division.
The small plastic envelope was present in an space of the West Wing that guests and workers members usually go by means of through the day. When workers members need to deliver family members or associates on excursions of the West Wing, they often accomplish that at evening and on the weekends.
An individual aware of the investigation stated that the baggie was discovered close to an space the place visitors are screened for safety and go away their telephones in small cubbies. The Secret Service wouldn’t say the place precisely the substance was discovered within the foyer or whether or not the company was working with the White Home to overview visitors logs. Folks aware of the investigation say that the world is frequented so usually by so many teams of folks that it could be laborious to seek out the one who left the baggie.
President Biden and his household had been away at Camp David on Sunday when the baggie was discovered and officers briefly shut down components of the complicated to evaluate whether or not the substance was hazardous. That night, a check of the substance by hazmat crew officers returned a end result: “We’ve a yellow bar saying cocaine hydrochloride,” an official stated on a dispatch sent at 8:49 p.m. and logged by an internet site that gathers radio communications.
Mr. Biden returned along with his household on Tuesday. On Wednesday, he met with the Swedish prime minister within the Oval Workplace and didn’t reply to a query a reporter shouted concerning the incident.